Women's T20 Challenge: Velocity Playing 11, Player Stats, Team News

Velocity Playing 11: The upcoming exciting edition of the Women’s T20 Challenge 2022 is scheduled to kickstart from 23 May, 2022 at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Smriti Mandhana will captain the defending champions Trailblazers, Harmanpreet Kaur will lead the Supernovas side and Deepti Sharma has been appointed as the captain of the Velocity team. The T20 tournament will comprise of as many as 4 matches with all of them set to be played at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.

Women’s T20 Challenge: Velocity Playing 11, Player Stats, Team News

The Velocity side will be starting off their campaign in the Women’s T20 Challenge 2022 against Supernovas on 24 May, 2022 in Pune. The duo of Shafali Verma and Laura Wolvaardt will open the batting for Velocity in their first match of the competition. Yastika Bhatia, skipper Deepti Sharma, Shivali Shinde and Sneh Rana will bat in the middle-order.

Ayabonga Khaka, Kate Cross and Simran Bahadur will form part of the pace bowling attack. Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav and Keerthi James will be the three frontline spinners.

Velocity Playing 11
Shafali Verma
Laura Wolvaardt
Yastika Bhatia
Deepti Sharma (C)
Shivali Shinde
Sneh Rana
Ayabonga Khaka
Kate Cross
Radha Yadav
Simran Bahadur
Keerthi James

Velocity squad: Deepti Sharma (captain), Sneh Rana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Ayabonga Khaka, Kiran Navgire, Kate Cross, Keerthi James, Laura Wolvaardt, Maya Sonawane, Natthakan Chantham, Radha Yadav, Aarti Kedar, Shivali Shinde, Simran Bahadur, Yastika Bhatia, Pranavi Chandra.

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Supernovas vs Velocity: Velocity Player Stats

Shafali Verma Stats in T20I

For the Velocity, explosive opening batter Shafali Verma will be a crucial performer to watch out for in this T20 tournament. Shafali Verma has smashed a total of 700 T20I runs at a wonderful strike-rate of more than 140.

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Matches	Runs	Strike-rate	50s	Recent Form
29	700	141.12	3	53, 42, 12, 0, 0

Deepti Sharma Stats in T20I

Velocity skipper Deepti Sharma has an excellent record in the shortest format of the game both in the batting as well as bowling department. Deepti Sharma has scored close to 500 runs in T20I cricket and also taken as many as 60 wickets.

Matches	Runs	Wickets	Economy	Recent Form
58	498	60	6.13	0/41 & 2*, 0 & 0/13, 15, 1/52, 40 & 1/31

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Ayabonga Khaka Stats in T20I

For the Velocity side, Ayabonga Khaka will lead the pace bowling attack and she has done well in T20 cricket. Ayabonga Khaka has picked up a total of 32 T20I wickets at a fine economy of less than 7.